Sunday, November 28, 2010

That was the theme of this miniature - which is really a shame - this was a nice Jason Wiebe sculpted (I do like his stuff) classic wizard produced for Goodman Games and their Dungeon Crawl Classics line of miniatures (which ties back to some of their D&D modules).

I try not to do the classic blue wizard - for whatever reason I've tried to stay away from that cliche. I have a yellow/red and a green robed wizard.

So I thought that I would go with Brown - starting with Scorched Brown and to keep adding Rotting Flesh for the whole model. I did - and it looked like a chocolate Hershey bar left out by the Easter bunny. Therefore I painted a different color robe, than another color, and another - a little of this and a little of that.

Basically it ended up being a salvage project. Even taking a picture of the model ended up being a disaster for some reason - it just wouldn't take - so what's above is the best I could get and provide some realistic coloring.

Updated 2010-12-31: playing around with digital macro settings and gimp software:

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Completed a miniature that I had started quite a long time ago. I had painted the skin tones and basecoated the clothing - then it sat for a long, long time - several years actually. Until now - I had a bit of inspiration - grabbed the color wheel and instead of two-color red/green I decided on a tri-color red/blue/yellow - the blue I worked into the ribbons and the yellow I used on the hair to great affect.

Painting Instructions for Kiri, Female Ninja:Step 01: Undercoat model with black primerStep 02: Use Dark Flesh on skinStep 03: Add bit of Elf Flesh to Dark Flesh and build highlights on skinStep 04: Continue adding Elf Flesh to mix until final highlight on skinStep 05: Use Red Gore on clothesStep 06: Use Blood Red on clothes for highlightsStep 07: Use Blazing Orange on clothes as final highlightStep 08: Use Shadow Grey on cloth armorStep 09: Use Space Wolves Grey on cloth armor for puffiesStep 10: Use Ghostly Grey on puffies as highlightStep 11: Use Regal Blue on ribbonsStep 12: Use Enchanted Blue on ribbons as highlightsStep 13: Use Lighting Blue on ribbons as final highlightsStep 14: Use Scorched Brown on all leather armor, straps, and bootsStep 15: Use Bestial Brown on all leather armor, straps, and bootsStep 16: Use Snakebite Leather on all leather armor, straps, and bootsStep 17: Use Bubonic Brown on all leather armor, straps, and bootsStep 18: Use Lightning Blue on bottlesStep 19: Use Ice Blue as liquid in bottlesStep 20: Use Bad Moon Yellow on hairStep 21: Add Skull White to Bad Moon Yellow and build highlights on hairStep 22: Use Boltgun Metal on metal bitsStep 23: Wash metal bits with Devlan MudStep 24: Use Chainmail on metal bits as highlightStep 25: Drybrush Codex Grey on stoneStep 26: Drybrush Fortress Grey on stone as highlightsStep 27: Drybrush Skull White on stone as final highlights

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